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Mascot, TN

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Overview


Mascot is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,760 people and just one neighborhood, Mascot is the 182nd largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mascot, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mascot, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mascot’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mascot does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $44,955.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Mascot is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mascot is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascot who work in healthcare (15.53%), office and administrative support (15.07%), and sales jobs (10.91%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mascot has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mascot has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mascot than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mascot may be for you.

Mascot is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Mascot with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.56% of adults in Mascot have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mascot in 2022 was $27,314, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,256 for a family of four. However, Mascot contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mascot is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mascot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mascot include Irish, German, Dutch, Italian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Mascot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mascot are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 19.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Mascot, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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